The Troy Game

'I need you to go to a place to which there is no path,' the king's younger son Brannock is told. All the boy has to guide him is a brooch of old and battered gold, swinging from a leather thing. Using its magic, Brannock and his cousin Eilian, his dog and her cat, are led by way of seven circles to the centre of a maze. There they realize they have been following the pattern of the troy in Brannock's home village--where, in times past, a dance has always taken place on the eve of spring. The dance and the troy game have been forgotten: but when Brannock's kingdom is in danger, the land alone remembers how to protect and avenge itself.